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by groby_b 4y ago
Huh. Now I wonder if that system is regionally different. My experience was back in Germany, and delivery times were (unless it was a rare book) pretty predictably about a week. Still miss that store :)
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by groby_b 4y ago
Bookstores never really were the place to get specific books. Yes, you could, but in essence you'd just place a remote order. Bookstores always were places to make discoveries, to learn, to have people recommend books for you. My first
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by groby_b 4y ago
How on earth do you wear a 32 inch band with a 40 inch underbust? I mean... maybe we can't all tell perfect fit between a 38 and a 40, but if somebody is tightening a vise around your underbust, how do you miss that? And yes, abrathatf
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by groby_b 4y ago
I am, oddly, very much in control of my body even though I use warm showers. By all means, find your joy in cold showers - but it's worth keeping in mind that they're exactly what you call them, self-flagellation. I choose to forg
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by groby_b 4y ago
How's that different from the US? Nominally left-leaning yoga moms are a huge part of the antivax moxement. It's the same thing - a lack of understanding, an unwillingness to think critical, a naive belief that "nature good,
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by groby_b 4y ago
Let's reformulate this in a mathsy way, because the underlying question is interesting. We'll start from gender binary, and let's see where we go from here. First change: If you have n male/male couples, m female/f
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by groby_b 4y ago
Because aluminum has a lower current carrying capacity (EV's have relatively high amperage, compared to transmission lines - 30A-50A vs 1A). And the greater resistance means a larger cross-section(~1.5x) than copper, which in a space-c
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by groby_b 4y ago
My argument (and that of the car industry, behind closed doors, fwiw) is that we're not going to see an all-EV future any time soon, and that you need to hedge your bets. Also, resource shortages are not a problem you easily engineer y
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by groby_b 4y ago
As a rule, research may be appropriate. A quick back-of-the-envelope makes clear that a pure EV future that's structured similarly to what exists today isn't viable. There's ~1.44B cars world wide. Replace them all with EVs,
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by groby_b 4y ago
An Obsidian license is $50. That'd mean a monthly income of $500. There's a good chance that means you're working by yourself, so I'll flag that Obsidian only requires a commercial license if the company has two or more
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by groby_b 4y ago
The value in bundled "Tools for Thoughts" isn't just that you can interconnect everything - unless you actively research and want to synthesize something new, that's in fact overvalued. The true value (at least to me) li
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by groby_b 4y ago
It's a great piece of fiction. As LA Review of Books put it, "The only issue is that Gladwell’s account doesn’t withstand serious scrutiny. " And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with Gladwell - he's a great story tel
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by groby_b 4y ago
I can promise you that if you don't learn to get organized and if you don't learn to influence people, there's a ceiling to where you can go as a software engineer. I don't know if I had recommended these specific books,
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by groby_b 4y ago
Having worked with people who built (and build) extremely large things - not true in my experience. While the corporate landscape is conducive to sociopaths, it certainly doesn't require them. So, yes, go find another job is the right
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by groby_b 4y ago
Sure, that's solid policy, but I'm not sure it really addresses the "tribal knowledge" issue per se. I mean, I'd like to think that fixing reliability issues increases knowledge, but decades on multithreaded codeb
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by groby_b 4y ago
I hope so. I posted for the sake of people who (like past me) took the "don't tell yourself a story" advice too far. Turns out if possible, you want to root cause your issues before dismissing. :)
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by groby_b 4y ago
> Why focus on something that doesn't serve you if you can tune it out. Because you don't necessarily know if it serves you. You could wake up stiff because you overdid your workout. That's a pretty valuable signal telling
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by groby_b 4y ago
Say more, please. How does an error budget account for a lack of experts in the stability area? I can't seem to be able to make that connection, and I'd love to learn.
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by groby_b 4y ago
> Especially when some celebrity says some real shit about govmnt, LOL indeed. Celebrities rarely say "real shit" about the government. They are good at the thing that made them famous. They are... tertiary sources, at best, wh
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by groby_b 4y ago
That's not the question. The question is "would the world really be a better place if we viewed malicious lies as disqualifying", and I believe the answer is yes.
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by groby_b 4y ago
So, the worst possible violation costs you $18K? I suppose you can afford a few of them if you're SpaceX. (Especially the way they pay - your salary comes pre-reduced for several violations/year)
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by groby_b 4y ago
If you have a "payroll lady", you're not working at a big-corp.
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by groby_b 4y ago
I'd suggest that anybody over 16 who uses Ayn Rand as an explanation (or model) for human behavior should spend a while exploring the humanities.
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by groby_b 4y ago
Sure. And if you happen to actually venture into that low end of the stack, you learn. But the idea that you should know everything, just in case (or just because us olds had to learn it) is extremely wasteful. I use a black box (car) to ge
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by groby_b 4y ago
The TC works just fine w/ any number of string instruments that aren't guitars or electric :)
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by groby_b 4y ago
Or skip the idea that your phone makes a good tuner, spend $35, and get the TC Electronic Unitune. It's by far the best tuner I've used so far, and it's small enough you can just throw it into your guitar case. (Or leave it p
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by groby_b 4y ago
Good on your manager. Beliefs of personal infallibility are vastly overrated. Sure, some things come in pairs. Some requirements are immutable and obvious. That's not the interesting part of a design, and if that's all it lists, t
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by groby_b 4y ago
California doesn't want to reduce inflation. (It would be of at least questionable legality, too. Because monetary policy lies with the federal government - Article 1, Section 8) What California does want to do is ensure poorer people
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by groby_b 4y ago
Hot take: If you take three months planning , either it's incredibly complex or you're holding it wrong. If your directors aren't able to recognize either case well before the 3 months mark, get yourself new directors. (Sour
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by groby_b 4y ago
Given that California can't print money, why do you think those checks are "printing money"? And no, it's not a "sneaky backdoor". It's the government doing what it should do, tighten financial inequality

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